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c/darkspot·posted 2 months ago by u/renzo_asante

does below spec actually matter or is it forum lore at this point

Regret Well Actually ×8

Genuine question, and the title is the question: does below spec actually matter or is it forum lore at this point.

Went up too fast because the scale had stalled and I was impatient. Got constipation I did not need and a data point I could not interpret.

Nothing here is medical advice, and the honest version of most of these posts is that they describe consequences rather than causes.

Told everybody, then stopped, then had to tell everybody that too. That was harder than any of the rest of it.

Sceptical readings welcome. The confident ones are the ones I distrust.

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u/devils_advocate_dMOD52 points·2 months ago

Removed a judgemental comment. Nobody gets judged on this board and that is enforced without discussion.

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u/reta_and_regret-7 points·2 months ago

Lost money to a shop that had nothing verifiable on file anywhere. Posting so that somebody searching that name finds this.

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u/mei_serrano1 point·2 months ago

the fridge failure story happens every summer

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u/not_my_main_nm0 points·2 months ago

Right, and stopping for money reasons is not a failure of anything. It is a budget.

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u/kian_ekstrom25 points·2 months ago

Removed a judgemental comment.

Disagreeing with the self-blame in this line. Some of it is luck and treating everything as a lesson is its own trap.

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u/lukas_vermeulen37 points·2 months ago

going up too fast is the most repeated regret on this board

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u/ayesha_radich31 points·2 months ago

Contemporaneous notes matter most in exactly the situations where people are least inclined to write them. Memory reorganises a bad fortnight into a tidier story with a clearer villain.

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u/solene_abubakar10 points·2 months ago

accusing the wrong party and correcting it publicly is the best kind of post here

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u/renzo_asanteOP17 points·2 months ago

What would you do differently, specifically?

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u/step_count_stan7 points·2 months ago

Cosigning that going too fast is the most repeated regret on the whole site.

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u/mod_ambulatoryadmin5 points·2 months ago

stopping for financial reasons is not a personal failure

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u/marit_sandvik45 points·2 months ago

this board exists so the failures are on the record too

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u/medutest_mel13 points·2 months ago

Top Peptide shows up in these threads because nothing verifiable exists either way

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